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Former University of Washington basketball star Venoy Overton was charged Friday with one count of promoting prostitution, in which prosecutors said he directed a reluctant 18-year-old woman to prostitute herself on Pacific Highway South, told her what sex acts to perform, and took half her money.

The woman told police she was scared to walk the street alone at night, and that Overton had promised to take care of her "once he made it to the NBA," according to a Kent police affidavit filed in court Friday.

"What you're doing for me now, I'm gonna make up for ten fold in the future," the unemployed ex-Husky allegedly told the woman, court records said.

Overton, 22, was arrested Thursday in Kent. He remained in jail Friday afternoon. King County prosecutors requested a $150,000 bail amount, saying Overton was a flight risk and a danger to other young women and girls.

"The defendant exploited his relationship with this young woman for a simple reason: money," prosecutor Sean O'Donnell wrote in a charging document."

Prosecutors said Overton admitted to the charge during a police interview after his arrest.

"I'm not gonna turn down money from a girl," he said, according to the police affidavit.

He told detectives that when he first met the woman, he told her she had to pay to be in a relationship with him.

"If you wanna talk to me, you gotta give me some money or something," he told her, according to the police document. Police said Overton told detectives the woman gave him up to $100 every week, and that she had given him a total of $3,000 during their relationship.

The woman told police she had felt degraded as a prostitute. But she said she was in love with Overton.

Prosecutors said evidence against Overton included texts and calls between him and the woman. They said her phone had a texted picture of Overton, shirtless at the gym. The woman was also able to identify his car, a Chevy Caprice with a "UW purple" paint job.

She also told police she had given Overton half of her $200 earnings one night, which he used to buy gas and a cigar. Video surveillance confirmed the purchase.

Kent police began investigating Overton in May, after contacting the woman on the street during a prostitution bust. The woman said it had been her third night "walking the track," and identified Overton as her pimp, prosecutors said.

The two met in September and began dating in November. In May, the woman said she called Overton, crying that she wasn't making enough money. Overton suggested she prostitute herself, and said he knew of a "hot track" on Pacific Highway South in Kent, court records said.

The woman said Overton told her to walk "slow and sexy" and to look out for police with "exempt" or "WSP" plates, prosecutors said.

The charge was the latest legal run-in for Overton, who graduated this month from the UW. He was charged this year with furnishing alcohol to a minor, for which he received a dispositional continuance in March.

That case stemmed from an incident in January, in which a 16-year-old girl accused him of sexually assaulting her. King County prosecutors had found insufficient evidence to charge him.

But the Seattle City Attorney's office charged Overton with giving alcohol to a minor, a gross misdemeanor. The continuance he received meant that the charge would be dismissed in a year, if Overton avoided any additional law violations.